1967 Buller's Birds of New Zealand

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper, With Slipcase

New edition. Illustrated with forty-eight tipped in colour plates and six in-text figures. Collated complete. This work has long been a classic of bird literature, being a partnership between the ornithologist and the artist in the recording of bird life across the country of New Zealand. Now, reproduced with additional information to retains its place among the essential books of reference of bird fauna. Written by Sir Walter Lawry Buller, a New Zealand lawyer and naturalist who was a dominant figure in New Zealand ornithology. Edited and brought up to date by Evan Graham Turbott, a New Zealand ornithologist, zoologist, and museum administrator. Illustrated by Johannes Gerardus Keulemans, a Dutch bird illustrator, remembered for illustrating many of the best-known ornithology books of the nineteenth century.